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A total c*nt, sorry for that. Please block immediately. Toots autodelete every week

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GeriatricGardener , to palestine group
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“Obviously it’s Hamas’ fault Netanyahu blocked hostage deals to save his own skin”

by LauraK in Normal Island News on Substack

@palestine @israel

“Israel was given the October 7th blueprints two years earlier by spies in Gaza and those plans were studied by the IDF who described the coming invasion as ‘the biggest threat the Israeli Defence Forces are facing’. The IDF then decided to stop monitoring Hamas radio traffic (and banned civilians from doing so) because they saw this as a waste of effort. This is because they had more important things to focus on like monitoring western Twitter accounts for wrong-think. As you can see, Israel had its priorities in order.”

[..]

“I guess we’ll never know how failed to see the October 7th attacks coming and the IDF failed to mount a proper response for hours, but Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested the attacks were a gift from god and explained Israel would never have been allowed to eliminate Hamas if they’d not taken place.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/obviously-its-hamas-fault-netanyahu?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

mojala ,
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@GeriatricGardener @paninid @palestine @israel What a shitshow. I knew some of the mentioned things but all together pretty damning stuff. And all of it is ok for the leaders.

GhostOnTheHalfShell , to economics-that-works group
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@economics-that-works @economics @academicchatter

Imma stick my neck out here but this paper of M Friedman

The Methodology of Positive Economics

his argument means there is no useful distinction between say, theories of heliocentrism v geocentrism, germ theory v humors, spontaneous generation v infectious disease vectors.

that germ theory hypothesis is “unrealistic”, so is spontaneous generation and nothing can or should be said of them

somehow this passed academic muster.

mojala ,
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@phil_stevens @economics-that-works @GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics @academicchatter Every time there is any political debate it always ends up on state debt. The percentages, 60% from gdp for total amount of debt and 3% for loss from budget get bandied around quite a bit from politician, officials and economists. The only ones who remember that Rogoff was bullshit are labeled as commies and therefore not listened to.

randahl , (edited ) to random
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While you and I are busy financing the transition away from fossil fuels, Just Stop Oil thought they would paint Stonehenge orange and photograph themselves, believing that desecrating 5000-year-old neolithic monuments, gets us closer to the renewable energy future.

mojala ,
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@randahl @harriettmb Is there one who’s made a worse decision? So if no effect, why bitch about it online and not do something effective for the sustainable future? Or is that just for other people? ;)

hanse_mina , to random
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Finnish intelligence source: Almost all the ground forces in 's immediate area to are now in .

"On average, 80 percent of the equipment and soldiers have been transferred to the war in Ukraine".

According to an intelligence source, Russian bases in other parts of Russia have also suffered an equally heavy loss. Only in the region, the war of aggression against Ukraine has not taxed the crew and armament as much.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20093440

mojala ,
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@Npars01 @hanse_mina Seeing as many of the nazi bastards / Kokoomus were hankering for Karjala back in the nineties ive been disappointed that the current crop of right wing nut jobs don’t have the grit to demand Karjala back while Putin’s occupied in Ukraine. It’s almost like it’s always been bullshit they and thru what they spew from their mouths. Go figure.

mojala ,
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@Npars01 @hanse_mina Besides, the only reason there is any nature left on the Karelian isthmus is exactly because of Russia. If the Finn’s had their way it would be just one big spruce plantation.

mojala ,
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@Npars01 @hanse_mina Exactly - old growth forest is difficult to traverse but the plantation style popular in finals is easy. And yes, the horrors Russians visit on their nature is only surpassed but the amount of ruin done to human beings. What would it take to stop this? I don’t know.

geras , to bookstodon group
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"The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours."

— Ursula K. Le Guin: The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (Earthsea Cycle)

@bookstodon

mojala ,
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@geras @bookstodon I didn’t know that there was an edition with Vess. This means shopping.

urlyman , to random
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Plastics are slowly killing us.
They’re also ubiquitous in the clinical settings that are extending our lives. That’s some serious YinYang.

Found this. Seems like a pretty informative explainer on plastics and their relationship to fossil fuels https://www.bpf.co.uk/plastipedia/how-is-plastic-made.aspx

mojala ,
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@dymaxion @urlyman And to get reuse to work we already have tools for it - a deposit fee + standardized packaging.

ninokadic , to AcademicChatter group
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“All microsubjects featuring in the relevant structure relationally determine the phenomenal character of only one microsubject in a way that gives it a full human experience. […] The relevant relational structure is whatever is minimally necessary to produce my current conscious experience at any given time…”

@philosophy @cognition @academicchatter

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04464-0

mojala ,
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@ninokadic @philosophy @cognition @academicchatter Wow! I had no idea this was a topic. Thanks for sharing the article, put it on my reading list. (Which is filled with a lot of worthily articles that I can’t get read but it is what it is).

SimonRoyHughes , to writingcommunity group
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Dearest academics, especially of the those of the humanistic persuasion,

Please offer your opinion:

@writingcommunity @academicchatter

mojala ,
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@noctuaminervae @SimonRoyHughes @writingcommunity @academicchatter with digital documents, ideally the reader could choose

mojala ,
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@SimonRoyHughes @noctuaminervae @writingcommunity @academicchatter I'm looking forward of learning how to do it easily. It would be such a great tool for thinking and writing.

breadandcircuses , to random
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Please read this opinion piece by Johan Hansson, a theoretical physicist at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. Here are a few excerpts...

I find it tragic that the world is governed exclusively by economists and is driven by economics, which is not a natural science, but just a human invention. There are physical limits to continuous economic expansion – a fact that most economists do not seem to understand.

In my view it is crazy to think that uncontrolled technological “development” and exploitation driven by unbridled and increasingly unequal capitalism will save us. It is what has plunged us into today’s crisis in the first place.

After all, if you are sitting on a tree branch that you are sawing off, and the ground underneath is burning, the solution is not to switch to a better saw – it is to stop sawing.

Role models like climate activist Greta Thunberg are trying to save those who, for some reason, have not yet understood how serious the situation actually is. To reach the climate pledge of limiting global warming below 1.5°C, the use of fossil fuels must completely cease by 2035, with zero deforestation and a drastic reduction in other greenhouse gas emissions. Yet according to the International Energy Agency, about 80% of the world’s energy today still comes from fossil fuels.

There is one option to reverse the current trend and that is to abide by Earth’s natural limits. Governments need to realize that rich countries must adapt their production and consumption to bring it below what is sustainable for the Earth-system as a whole. The only alternative to a planned and controlled downsizing is a forced and catastrophic global collapse.

Only degrowth can save us.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://physicsworld.com/a/the-climate-is-doomed-if-we-continue-to-be-fixated-by-economic-growth/

#Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth

mojala ,
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@matthewtoad43 @breadandcircuses Here you go: https://tmurphy.physics.ucsd.edu/papers/limits-econ-final.pdf he conveniently hosts all pdfs at his website.

breadandcircuses , to random
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Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) says…

“The fact that the Western ruling classes treat both climate breakdown and plausible genocide with such extraordinary nonchalance demonstrates once again that they are entirely comfortable with mass suffering if it serves the interests of capital and geopolitical hegemony.”

Too true!

mojala ,
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@breadandcircuses @matthewtoad43 @jasonhickel This. We all know it. The world is a tyranny of evil human beings and there is noone to smite them. Would that there was a power against this but no such group effort is visible. What to do? Keep on. Try. Do the right thing. Speak. Even if it won’t matter. Especially if it doesn’t matter.

mojala ,
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@breadandcircuses @matthewtoad43 @jasonhickel That being said, look up K. Hayhoe - a better argument for keeping on and speaking. I’m a lost cause in this and other matters but hopefully people will find their way to Hayhoe’s writing.

beecycling , to bookstodon group
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After enjoying R.F. Kuang's Yellowface so much, I'm now reading Babel - which I got from the library. It's a 500+ page honker, and the library copy is a hardback so I can't exactly slip it in my pocket to carry around. It's definitely an at home read. Enjoying it so far. She has a very readable style. @bookstodon

mojala ,
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@KerryMitchell @bookstodon @olliethewobbly @beecycling The other pov is that if a critical writer / members of the organizing committee travel to the show, will they get back out? As things are going might not be too paranoid / far fetched.

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